Redpine

Redpine operates a data platform, described by the company as a "grounding API" or knowledge layer for agentic AI, that aggregates licensed, non-public datasets and makes them queryable from a single point of entry. AI builders and autonomous agents send queries via API, Model Context Protocol (MCP) or CLI; the platform evaluates relevant context, assesses data quality in real time to filter outdated or unreliable material, retrieves the matching licensed content and returns it with source attribution. Coverage spans text, images, video, audio and code, including peer-reviewed scientific and journal material, real-time news and financial signals, clinical and medical datasets, source code repositories (including private repos), evaluation and Q&A sets, transcribed audio, podcasts and music, and egocentric and multi-camera video for world models and robotics.

On the supply side, the company signs licensing agreements directly with content owners — copyright holders, publishing houses, research firms, software companies and video producers — rather than scraping the open web, and positions itself as a way for those owners to monetise undermonetised assets while retaining control and compliance. The stated focus is on domains where inaccurate data compounds errors in multi-step agentic workflows: healthcare, law, financial markets, scientific research and news. Alongside real-time inference and RAG use cases, Redpine offers licensed datasets for model training, fine-tuning and benchmarking under bespoke arrangements. As of April 2026 the platform provided access to more than 100 billion tokens of premium licensed data, with a free tier of five queries.

Founding story

Founded in 2024 in Stockholm by Anders Hammarbäck (CEO, previously McKinsey and Antler) and David Österdahl (CTPO, previously Spotify, iZettle/Zettle and Lunar), with Dr Leonora Vesterbacka (PhD from CERN, AI R&D at KBLab) as founding data scientist. The company operated in stealth for roughly a year before launching publicly in September 2025. The name refers to the red pine, a tree found in Nordic, North American and Asian forests, chosen as a metaphor for deep roots and for compensating data owners.

Business model

Two-sided data marketplace: AI builders and agents pay per usage (per token or per query) for data access, with the first five queries free, and Redpine operates a revenue-share arrangement with the content partners supplying the underlying datasets. Larger bespoke arrangements are offered for AI training use cases.

Usage-based pricing charged per token or per query rather than a flat subscription, with a revenue share paid to data owners and publishers.

Traction

Reported access to more than 100 billion tokens of premium licensed data, with the repository described as expanding; disclosed work with leading international AI labs and US biotechnology research firm AsedaSciences; a partnership with All Ears covering 50,000 hours of daily spoken media; and €9 million raised in total across two announced rounds as of April 2026.

Latest developments

In April 2026 Redpine announced a €6.8 million seed round led by NordicNinja, with Luminar Ventures, node.vc and angel investors including Peter Sarlin, Patrik Tran and Anna Nordell Westling, taking total funding to €9 million and adding Marek Kiisa to the board. Proceeds are being used for global expansion, development of proprietary retrieval and reranking technology, scaling proprietary data partnerships and hiring across engineering, data science and go-to-market. The company also announced a partnership with All Ears covering 50,000 hours of daily spoken media and a brand refresh.